American Redirection

Are we undergoing an American Redirection?

If so, then, to where, exactly?

Tocqueville said that America was a great nation because her
people were a good people. It followed from that that when and if we
were no longer a good people, we would not longer be a great nation. To
carry it a step further, would we still even be a nation when and if we
were no longer a distinct people, different in some way from other
people in other nations?

Since the birth of the Catholic American Thinker
website I have challenged movements toward becoming a non-people by
attacking what I saw as the prime agents of change in that direction,
which is to say, predominantly, Marxists of various spot and stripe, the world-wide advance of the Modernist heresy, and the belligerent advance of the most intolerant and bigoted forms of extreme Secularism.

But, there is another source of anti-American Ideal, pro-Utopian Global-Village-ism, or, non-people-ism
if you will, that is more hidden and therefore perhaps more insidious
and dangerous than the more open threats enumerated above. It involves
how we think, in our majority. If you have been following the NuVo
Initiative discussion at Nuvo Initiative Problems Discourse
page then you know what I'm talking about. If not, you should go to
that link and follow the dialogue all the way to the end, and then
return here and continue. It's worth the effort. It was an eye opener
for me, and an alarm bell, because the threat not even seen, or not
recognized as a threat is the one most likely to bite you.

All treatments of the errors of Modernism, including mine,
describe a gross over-emphasis of material science over the search for
causes, or, put another way, the study of things over the study of the causes
of things. That Modernism has won this argument in the collective minds
of men is quite obvious. SANE has pointed out that people have moved
into a phase of taking science for granted to the point that material
science dominates virtually all human discourse; it is now seen to be the required component of good human reason. This has happened for the simple reason that science - at least at it's most scientific level - works, and can be demonstrated to work. (The most scientific level involves mathematics, physics and chemistry.)

And, on the other side of the intellectual street, where we consider causes, things are more indefinite. Religion, or, religions, cannot
be shown to work, in the same way that science can. And so there is
this set of reciprocal equations put forth by SANE that theoretically
dominate reasoned thought among free men today, and they are:

Material Science = Certainty

Non-Science = Uncertainty

Which
tells us that the only things we may know with any certainty at all
come out of worldly science. Since we cannot "scientifically" prove any
religion or revelation or belief system outside of pure science, we
cannot know with any certainty what parts, if any, of any of them, might
be "True."

It doesn't take much thought to see that this foretells the eventual, perhaps even inevitable, death of any guiding ethos and of any sense of the existence of external objective Truths that might be independent of the mind of man, and independent of worldly science.

The other-worldly obviously cannot be "proved" by use of worldly
science. Since I cannot scientifically prove my religion, and you
cannot scientifically prove yours, they should be given equal value in
the collective consciousness. This is the almost automatic and
unthinking response once science begins to dominate thought. Only
science can quantify things and assign value to them with any certainty;
religion is non-scientific, therefore, no religion and no collection of
religions can make valid input regarding the value of things. Further,
when religion is ignored or removed or censored from the public
dialogue, people are reduced to things, to be numbered among other
things, and assigned value only as science knows how to assign value.
Science has no sense of sacredness; sacredness cannot be scientifically
proved.

The position of SANE is that this thread of human thought that is
now directing most public and political discourse out in the American
public square is what is driving the trend we and others have railed
against, which is a movement away from the Constitutional American Republic, and being a nation of laws and not merely of men, and toward becoming a pure Democracy - a nation of men and not of laws - which is to say, mob rule.

Which begins to explain how a man who calls himself a Christian
will vote to support abortion, and a man who calls himself a devout Jew
will vote to support homosexual marriage. We overwhelmingly call
ourselves believers. Are we still Christians and Jews when we no
longer act like it? By what authority do so many of us openly disobey
the clear teaching of our religion? By the authority of The world?

By the authority of material science, which is overwhelmingly seen as certain.
A notion that over-rides non-material objective Truth held by men of
faith, because non-material objective Truth cannot be quantified and
assigned a value by material science. Therefore, we have the tendency,
which has become natural, to compromise with and to tolerate and even encourage other, alien, and even opposing, moral codes and systems. We, in our majority, give them all equal value. This is a movement toward pure majority rule.

Which, applied in any Democratic system of government, will tend
to move toward pure Democracy without any hindrance to majority opinion,
fad, fashion or even spontaneous impulse. Mob Rule. And if the
mood of the mob at the moment causes them to cry out "Crucify Him!
Crucify Him!" well then, the mood of the mob will be honored.

This tendency is fed and tended by prominent men in the public eye who portray themselves as conservatives.
A good example is the radio talk show host Neil Boortz. While I
applaud his so called Fair Tax movement, and his attacks on bigger
government and on government spending, something happens to his
"conservative" credentials, in my eye, when he turns to social issues.
He is clearly pro-abortion, even though he vehemently denies it, and
cannot even bring himself to say it (He's not pro-abortion, he's pro-choice,
he'll have you know.) He's pro-sodomy, although he will use Orwellian
Newspeak and wimpy weasel-words to describe his pro-sodomy position. He
is almost rabidly anti-Christian, and, again, he will deny it, while
still railing against the Constitutional right to open Christian
religious exercise anywhere in public or within his view. What is he
leading us toward? Nothingness? Non-people-hood? Are we all to
eventually become as un-directed, purposeless and pointless as him? Is
all of America eventually to become a drifting, random nation with no
fixed sense of goodness?

We seem to be cruising into an amorphous human mass in a manner
similar to the ever growing one in the new Eurabian Union. Western
Europe is already gone, and even the citizens are unwilling to or
incapable of distinguishing themselves from any other peoples on Earth.
The silly notion seems to be that no matter what we are - cannibals,
Marxists, Hezbollah, head-hunters, Hindus, Roman Catholics, Al Queda, Ku
Klux Klownsmen, or whatever - we're all really the same, under the
skin. Science assigns an equal value to all of us, and to all of our
languages, histories, practices, values, religions and belief systems,
and so we should ignore our differences, join hands, and sing It's a small world after all, all together.

It's scientific.

While I applaud the efforts of SANE to bring this topic to the
forefront, I still question the wisdom of the NuVo (Null Vote)
Initiative, because if the best of us are the only ones who withhold
their vote, it would seem likely to speed the process along rather than
adversely affect it. While it is admirable to take the position of not cooperating
with the movement to mob rule, that tactic is still quite impossible
for many of us. From Valley Forge to Iraq, good men have put their
lives on the line to defend our rights, the right to vote among them. I
await with apprehension and hopefulness whatever is coming next from
SANE. I feel as though one waiting to hear the other shoe to fall.
Indications have been that this is an on-going work and other essays are
to come; I pray that there may be some direction toward opposing the
non-people-hood trend with something other than withholding our votes.

And I pray that higher government authorities might take note of
the fact pointed out by SANE that ISLAM is the enemy, and not just some
subset of it, or some Islamic organization by whatever name that may
come into being. It seems good to me to pursue the recommendation of
declaring Sharia outlawed anywhere within the USA, and declaring
ourselves hostile to lands ruled by Sharia, as a good beginning point.
We should not support any movements or any nations dedicated to our own
destruction.

The term American Redirection implies a change of America's direction, and thus demands a close look at our original national direction. Is the new American redirection directing us to a better place, or to a worse place?

Tocqueville was right. America was a great nation because
her people were a good people. Look at the referendums around the
country and how we voted on them. Look at who won various races. Look
at the trend to get more and more openness in society and in elections
and in issues. Are we still a Godly people?

What are we? Do we have a direction and a purpose?

Begin with this: what are you?

As I said in an earlier post, I am very busy right now, but this
was on my mind and I had to speak of it. Pray for America, and for
President Bush, and for Israel.

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